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Australian Biological Resources Study

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Flora of Australia
GLOSSARY

Compiled by A.McCusker


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stigma: the pollen-receptive surface of a carpel or group of fused carpels, usually sticky.


style: an elongated part of a carpel, or group of fused carpels, between the ovary and the stigma.

Style-end (stigma) shape
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